#d

Work hard. "Suit yourself, then you'll know at least one person is pleased. ↗

— Carole Estrup

#child-abuse #healing-the-past #memoir #art

Only the mediocre artist is always at his best. ↗

— Victor J. Banis

#artist #excellence #mediocrity #writer #writing

To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from. They are born from life. When you create a new work, the point of departure must be contemporary life -- not existing forms of dance. ↗

— Pina Bausch

#life

If love is like driving a car, then I must be the worst driver in the world. I missed all the signs and ended up lost. ↗

— Brian MacLearn

#life-and-living #lost-love #love-hurts #life

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. ↗

— Le Corbusier

#faster #i #leaves #less #lies

I am about art here, not simple reproduction. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#art

Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value. ↗

— Philip Kotler

#client #customer #marketing #product #value

Sir," said the guard from behind me. "I'd appreciate it if you left your club here." I paused and looked over my shoulder, He had a gun. His hand wasn't exactly resting on it, but he'd tucked his thumb into his belt about half an inch away. "It isn't a club," I said calmly. "It's a walking stick." "Six feet long." "It's traditional Ozark folk art." "With dents and nicks all over it." I thought about it for a second. "I'm insecure?" "Get a blanket. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#humourous #art

People today are trying to hang on to the dignity of man, but they do not know how to, because they have lost the truth that man is made in the image of God. . . . We are watching our culture put into effect the fact that when you tell men long enough that they are machines, it soon begins to show in their actions. You see it in our whole culture -- in the theater of cruelty, in the violence in the streets, in the death of man in art and life. ↗

— Francis A. Schaeffer

#violence #art

Hard work is a sure death but a slower one than starvation. ↗

— Jim Hinckley

#inspirational #death